Jewish Concepts of Scripture

270 Shalom Carmy of R. Abraham Isaac Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine in the 1920s and ’30s, whose mystical thought has been e ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 271 “intention” in most other contexts, such as prayer, or that what seems to be one l ...

272 S h a l o m Carmy Despite the adherence of the classical medieval authors to this principle, they never explicitly justifi e ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 273 “severance pay” (ha’anaka) or in the very fact that the master is consistently add ...

274 Shalom Carmy appear to be confl icting passages, allocated to several diff erent sections of the Torah, can add up to one me ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 275 within the framework of their belief in Torah mi-Sinai (Torah given at Si- nai). T ...

276 Shalom Carmy seventh day of the week (specifi cally, the fi rst Sabbath aft er the fi rst day of Passover). Th e omer is the ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 277 not explicit in either the narrative about Sinai (Exodus 19 – 20 and Deuter- onomy ...

278 Shalom Carmy work is less to join combat with academic literary Bible study than to make his own distinctive contribution to ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 279 See Pirkei Moadot I, 16 – 22, for discussion of the three passages. For the sake ...

280 Chapter 16 Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature Yael S. Feldman Th e fascinating autobiography of Max Brod off ers a witt ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 281 ucts,” or “inventions,” even “imagined communities.” Israeli identity has not escape ...

282 Yael S. Feldman the literary/linguistic canonization over the religious canonization, in an attempt to harvest the Bible’s l ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 283 In the fi rst volume of this eminently valuable work, Shaked collects over fi ve hun ...

284 Yael S. Feldman Although my brief account cannot do justice to Shaked’s comprehensive mapping of biblical themes in Hebrew p ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 285 so-called sacrifi ce of Isaac is a fact well known to Israelis but less so to out- s ...

286 Yael S. Feldman Nevertheless, the literary products of these immigrants attest that they did not necessarily identify with t ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 287 (and politicians), one may rightly ask, I believe, how did Israelis manage to turn a ...

288 Yael S. Feldman Lamdan identifi ed, then, not with the biblical aqedah but rather with the Jewish postbiblical portrayals of ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 289 self-immolator, but not his own agent: he volunteers to go along with his father’s p ...